DVD9>DVD5 sports problems

[thoughton]

Has anyone tried to backup any sporting event DVDs? In particular football (soccer to you Americans).

I just tried one and the quality was amazingly bad. All the game footage looks like a VCD, artifacts everywhere. The grass and the crowd are especially bad (not to mention Liverpool's all-red home strip :P). I assume because the camera is moving around so fast and there are so many wide angle shots (with thousands of faces in the crowd etc) it is hard to do. Slow-moving parts (interviews etc) look fine.

This was all with dvd2onex. The original DVD is almost 7 gigs (but is only 122 mins). I am thinking about what to try next - based on my one previous experience with it I'm not sure if dvdremaster's requantize option will be worth the time it takes. I was also wondering if I can re-encode the video to half D1 but I'm not sure I can do this while still retaining the menus and extras?

I would really like to keep the extras, they (for once) really add something. (The disc is a review of the season highlights, and the extras are cross-referenced to the same footage so you can see all of one player's goals in sequence etc).

Any thoughts or suggestions anyone?

[geek rock]

have you tried the "variable" encoding mode that's found in the latest versions of dvd2onex?

other than that, i can't offer you any more advice. i've used dvd2onex for mainly films and the odd tv show, and quality has been fine for me..

-Mark

[thoughton]

Yeah, tried that. Actually I dont bother with constant mode anymore after running a few tests with it on some 8gig 3hr discs I was backing up.

Thanks for the suggestion though

PS We are virtually neighbours (well, sorta) - I'm near Cambridge